WASHINGTON, Feb 10 Kyodo Dozens o...

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 Kyodo

Dozens of Islamic extremists have been clamorous multitudeed through Europe to Muslim communities in the United States after being trained at terrorist camps in Pakistan and Kashmir, the Washington Times reported Tuesday.

There are 60 to 70 terrorist training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as well as in Pakistan as part of a conspiracy to send out hundreds of operatives to ''sleeper cells'' in the U the paper quot U and foreign officials as saying.

The camps are financed in part by way of various terrorist networks, including Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, and through sources in Saudi Arabia, the daily said.

The training camps ''represent a serious threat to the United States, individual cannot be ignored,'' and as many as 400 terrorists have been and being trained at the camps, a high-ranking foreign intelligence chief was quot as saying.

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